The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

Luke 20:27-38

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus

and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s

brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the

widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven

brothers; the first married and died childless; then the second and the

third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless.

Finally, the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife

will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them,

“Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but

those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the r

esurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are

children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that

the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush,

where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living;

for to him all of them are alive.”